Doctor Who Magazine 357

THERE'S A NEW DOCTOR ON THE HORIZON... BUT WE'RE STILL EMBROILED IN THE MIDDLE OF A FANTASTIC SERIES OF ADVENTURES FOR THE NINTH DOCTOR

The Piper's Tale: Benjamin Cook presents highlights from Billie Piper's recent 'round table' interview with the press. “This show is essentially celebration of life,” she tells him...

Diary of a Dalek (Part 2): Last issue, we left the 7-year-old Nick Briggs trapped in a dark cell with Christopher Eccleston and director Joe Ahearne. Except that Nick is really 43 and is having the time of his life as the Dalek voice in the new series of Doctor Who... on telly and everything!

Set Report – Episode 6: Benjamin Cook ventures to a concrete bunker deep beneath the salt flats of Utah to meet the cast of Dalek. Well, that's his story…

New Series Preview: Episode 11 – Boom Town

I, Captain (and a world of innuendo): Stand well back! Captain Jack, the self-confessed 'Mr Innuendo Man', joins the TARDIS crew this month, and my word, you're going to love him! John Barrowman invites Benjamin Cook into his trailer to chat about tongue-twisters, stripping off for the cameras, and Rose Tyler's bum...

Comic Strip – The Love Invasion (Part 3): Our latest comic strip adventure concludes with the Moon facing destruction, and the Doctor a Kustollon prisoner…

New Series Preview: Episodes 12 & 13 – Bad Wolf and The Parting of the Ways

Word Up: BBC Books has been publishing original Doctor Who novels for almost a decade, but this month's publication of The Clockwise Man, The Monster Inside and Winner Takes All marks the first occasion that a series of books has been launched alongside the ongoing television series. Writers Stephen Cole, Justin Richards Jacqueline Rayner are no strangers to writing for previous incarnations of the Doctor – so what makes these three books different? David Darlington finds out...

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